Artillery Row
Home education? Help!
As schools close, isn’t it time to bring home education in from the cold?
Copping the lot
Why are death taxes staying when every other economic orthodoxy is going?
Amber Alert
A pandemic is no excuse to forget the Science of Equality
The real pandemic
The last thing we need is a future generation who can think for themselves
Politics in a time of Coronavirus
How partisan should party politics now be?
An abundance of viral caution
Online and distance learning aren’t solutions for shut schools
A certain modesty for numbers men
Hard problems don’t make behavioural science a hard science
They didn’t stop the fire
The DUP and the RHI scandal harm the Union
The Critic Interview: Grayson Perry
Richard Brooks accompanies the Turner Prize-winning artist around his new show and explores his troubled pre-therapy youth
Free speech in universities: A case study from Exeter
Jeremy Black explains how free speech is being undermined at Exeter University
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad